To escape fear and depression, the filmmaker picks up his camera and allows it to lead him. In the tension of contemporary Brazil, he focuses on the everyday and creates moments of happiness. He also makes room for stories of fellow-sufferers from Cuba and Haiti.
Rated 6.7 on TMDB
As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.
